Christmas Math Activities and Puzzles
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Bring some Christmas joy to your classroom or party with this collection of free printable Christmas math puzzles and activities.
Keep reading to find a variety of Christmas logic puzzles, crafts, and hands-on puzzles involving tangrams or pentominoes.
Christmas Math Lessons
12-25 Christmas Number Challenge
Put your math skills to the test with this Christmas number challenge involving the digits in 12-25. Can you use the digits 1, 2, 2, and 5 to create expressions equivalent to each number between 1 and 25?
Perfect for practicing the order of operations and mental math skills!
Christmas Mystery Tangram Coordinate Plane Activity
This Christmas Mystery Tangram Puzzle combines two favorite math activities into one. This printable Christmas puzzle will have students both practicing plotting ordered pairs on the coordinate plane and solving a fun tangram puzzle using the resulting outline from the plotted ordered pairs.
Christmas-Themed Parabola Graph Matching Activity
Students must match the equations of the parabolas with their graphs in order to decorate the tree. What a great task from Math with P. Nik!
Piecewise Function Christmas Tree Graphing
Do your students need some practice graphing piecewise functions? Challenge them to graph a Christmas Tree in Desmos!
Christmas Themed Desmos Marbleslides Graphing Challenge
Looking to reinforce your students’ equation writing skills during this Christmas season? Challenge them with this Desmos Christmas Marbleslides Graphing Challenge from Paul Jorgens!
Christmas Factor Trees
Your students will be singing “Oh Factor Tree, Oh Factor Tree…” when you get them making their factor trees in the shape of Christmas Trees!
Surface Area and Volume Gingerbread House Project
Carol Anderson shares a fun-looking lesson that involves surface area and volume combined with building gingerbread houses.
Holiday Exponent Problems
Students use their knowledge of exponents to figure out which holiday exponent problems are correct and which are incorrect.
Winter Slope Field Activity
Teaching slope fields in calculus? When students draw in the solution curves, it will create a fun winter themed picture for them to decorate.
Arithmetic Sequences/Series Christmas Decorating Task
Can your students use their knowledge of arithmetic sequences/series to solve a real-world problem about building a Christmas tree display out of handprints?
Desmos Gingerbread House Projects
Tricia Krumbach inspires with an idea I’m filing away for next Christmas – Desmos Gingerbread Houses!
Christmas Puzzles and Mazes
Hands-On Puzzles
Logic Puzzles
Math Puzzles
Mazes
Word Puzzles
Visual Puzzles
Christmas Games and Activities
Christmas Math Art Activities
Math Vocabulary Christmas Ornament Project
Check out these math vocabulary Christmas ornaments that my Algebra 2 students created. Each student was assigned a different math vocabulary word that we studied during the first semester.
Icosahedron Ornament Balls Tutorial
These Icosahedron Ornament Balls can be made using scrapbook paper or old Christmas cards. They make the perfect winter craft!
Borax Snowflake Christmas Ornaments
One of my most favorite projects was these Borax Snowflake Christmas Ornaments that I made a few years ago with my chemistry students with coffee filters. The ornaments are super glittery and sparkly in person.
Triangular Christmas Trees
These triangular christmas trees from Mark Ekstrom are beautiful! They are based on a tutorial from Martha Stewart.
Parabolic Tangent Line Christmas Tree Craft
These Christmas trees made with string, nails, and a piece of wood look so cool!
Quarter the Cross Laminated Ornaments
After having your students participate in Quarter the Cross (an excellent fraction task!), you could laminate their creations and turn them into Christmas ornaments!
See this post by Mark Kaercher for inspiration!
Parabolic Curve Christmas Activity
Looking for a mathematical Christmas activity? Check out this project from STAHS Maths Staff.
Christmas Classroom Decorating Ideas
Mathematical Christmas Display
This inspiring mathematical Christmas display from James Welham includes Sierpinski trees, Koch snowflakes, and student-created origami.
Math Door Decorating Ideas
Caitlyn Gironda – 12 Days of Math Class Door Decorations
Hedge – Christmas Trigonome-TREE
Science Christmas Decorating Ideas
Clemens Science – Bio-lo-trees
Miscellaneous Christmas Ideas
Not Your Average Winter Break Homework
Sara VanDerWerf provides an example of an awesome winter break homework assignment. Some of the tasks include watching movies, hanging out with family, and doing random acts of kindness.
Customized Christmas Ornaments for Students
Rory Yakubov shares an easy way to create custom laminated ornaments for each student in your classes.
Puzzle Solutions
Puzzle solutions are available on a password-protected solution page. I do not openly post the puzzle answer keys because one of my goals as a resource creator is to craft learning experiences for students that are non-google-able. I want teachers to be able to use these puzzles in their classrooms without the solutions being found easily on the Internet.
Please email me at sarah@mathequalslove.net for the password to the answer key database featuring all of my printable puzzles and math worksheets. I frequently have students emailing me for the answer key, so please specify in your email what school you teach at and what subjects you teach. If you do not provide these details, I will not be able to send you the password.
Not a teacher? Go ahead and send me an email as well. Just let me know what you are using the puzzles for. I am continually in awe of how many people are using these puzzles with scouting groups, with senior adults battling dementia, or as fun activities in their workplace. Just give me enough details so I know you are not a student looking for answers to the puzzle that was assigned as their homework!